I am proud to be a heretic. The world always needs heretics to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies. Since I am heretic, I am accustomed to being in the minority. If I could persuade everyone to agree with me, I would not be a heretic. | freeman dyson

...Then another idea occurred to him: what if he simply used the network to dispatch a single e-mail to all of them? “We invite you to come see the 2020 and hear about the DECSystem-20 family,’’ the message read. As historic lines go, it didn’t have quite the ring of “One small step for a man,” yet Gary Thuerk’s impact cannot be disputed. When he pushed the send button, he became the father of spam ...| michael specter, damn spam, tny

i don't understand why people wanna believe the world has been developed yesterday. but i admit, i don't like the line "father of"

was it y2k that let data jump? | dailytech as they say, nasa corrected their timeline silently and set already "the warmest year ever"in the us back from 1998 to 1934 ... the man who did "find out" comes from an oil and gas exploration company, but he is not the only one ...

anyhow, wondering how many institutes use the same data or that from hansen and ruedy in particular for their own simulations ...

what hansen himself had to say about the global warming debate back in 1999 ...